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April 5, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- I contracted Jon Stewart to record a segment of The Daily Show that would encapsulate the essence of Synthetic Work.
- How much do startups care about the impact of AI on jobs?
- Australia's government is delegating more and more decisions to AI.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Liverpool FC, the City of San Jose, and Visa are doing with AI.
- The Way We Work Now
- UK ministers are testing generative AI to draft answers to parliamentary questions.
- A Canadian lawyer submitted fake cases generated by AI to win a child custody case.
- Emerging filmmakers believe that AI is leveling the playing field.
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March 29, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Will AI lead workers to a future with greater impact on an organization?
- What happens if we are hired by an AI and assigned to a manager?
- The AI opportunity for consulting firms is starting to materialize.
- IPPR warns that 8 million UK workers are at risk of losing their jobs to AI.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- A new fine-tuned LLM is released every 6 minutes.
- Zscaler claims that enterprise AI usage skyrocketed by 595% in one year. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
- How Do You Feel?
- Tyler Perry halts studio expansion after seeing OpenAI Sora demo.
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March 23, 2024
- Editorial
- What should humans do in a world of autonomous AI agents and self-improving AI models?
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March 16, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Yuval Noah Harari: it's the first time in human history that nobody has any idea how the world would look like in 20 years.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. developed an AI tool that can cut almost 90% of human labor in analyzing and forecasting cash flows.
- The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will start using AI to X-ray cars at the border.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- Poorly done research suggests that text-to-image generative AI increases artist output quality but reduces novelty.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Amazon now turns URLs into product pages for its seller partners.
- The Way We Work Now
- Five finalists in this year's Pulitzer Prizes for journalism admitted to using AI to write their stories.
- UK care providers have started using ChatGPT and Gemini to create care plans.
- How Do You Feel?
- What happens if the value of our work goes down?
- The Tools of the Trade
- A new Stable Diffusion LoRA meant for architects allows you to generate images of physical models.
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March 9, 2024
- Editorial
- Three rules to pick a large language model.
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- A friar is Roman Catholic Church's and Italian government's AI ethicist.
- Prompting
- How to compel ChatGPT into compliance with incentives and threats.
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March 2, 2024
- Editorial
- Where's the AI opportunity? And for whom?
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Klarna and Air Canada are doing with AI.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- Can LLMs beat the wisdom of the crowd and be used to automate forecasts?
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February 25, 2024
- Editorial
- Where are the incentives?
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- A contrarian opinion on the limits of AI for health care.
- Questions you must have an answer for to claim you have an AI strategy.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- How deeply can AI transform the Advertising industry?
- Prompting
- Do LLM frameworks that rewrite user prompts really work?
- The Tools of the Trade
- A new LoRA for architecture studio using Stable Diffusion
